On the Nature of Commitment (WAS: Trying Something vs. Mastering It: Two Different Levels of Commitment)

[Guest guest]

Wow, Fool, do you seriously equate commitment with subjugation and

dependency?

 

I perceive the opposite, that when we truly commit ourselves to something,

by this act of choosing we open a whole new world of choices before us. For

when one door closes, a new door opens. And the more extraordinary

commitment, the more extraordinary the opening.

 

I mean, where would many of us be if America's founders had not made an

extraordinary commitment to something? Where would I be if I had not?

 

Nowhere I'd choose now, to be sure!!!

 

There is a saying that there are no extraordinary people, only ordinary

people with extraordinary commitments. Who are these people? Some we all

know ... Gandhi, King, Einstein, Edison, Bell, Fulton, Franklin, .... And of

course, many go nameless, their commitments to self, family, community, and

the like never making headline news.

 

These are the people who create history's breakthroughs; they pave the way

into the future, whatever it may hold.

 

So what is the nature of this distinction, between the commitment of which I

write and what you seem to describe? Presence, awareness, aliveness. And

what are we all seeking here, really? Greater presence, awareness, and

aliveness. How do we seek it? Well, at least in part by making an

extraordinary commitment to our own well-being, and hopefully to something

larger, and then by bringing that commitment into the way we live each and

every day.

 

Best,

Elchanan

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the kneeling fool [kneel.pardoe]

Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:16 AM

rawfood

Re: [Raw Food] Re: Trying Something vs. Mastering It: Two Different

Levels of Commitment

 

 

Commitment is only necessary in order to stick with something when it goes

wrong, it enables us to do this simply because of a belief it is the right

thing to do. It is what leaders and cults demand of their followers and

subdugates the followers into dependence *by their own doing*. A condition

of dependence is never a healthy position.